A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler’s take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman’s view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk’s analysis of the West’s history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.
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Introducing Electronic Literature
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Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution
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Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism: Professional Attention
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Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates 1559-1610
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Inventing the Popular in Nineteenth-century France: Printing, Politics, and Poetics
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
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Male Adolescence in Mid-victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
$6,748 -
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary’s History of Edward II
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Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
$6,975 -
Early Modern Travel and the Discourses of English Nationalism
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Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy
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Golden Age Spain on the Jacobean Stage: John Fletcher’s Reading and Writing of Cervantes & Co.
$6,748 -
Henry James, Consciousness, and the Evolution of the Novel
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Literature of the 1970’s: Things Fall Apart
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William T. Vollmann: Writing America’s Other Histories
$4,725 -
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures: Border Country
$5,400 -
Acts of Modernity: The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814-1901
$6,748 -
Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue
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The Purple Decades: A Reader
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Six Metaphysical Poets: A Concise Critical Introduction and Innovative Interdisciplinary Reading of Selected Mystographical Poem
$943